My lecturers

Ann-Christin Bertrand

Ann-Christin Bertrand

Ann-Christin Bertrand has been a curator, author and lecturer for photography for many years. She is the head of the BA in Camera Arts programme. In her work, she combines practice-based/institutional and academic experience.

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During her ten-year tenure as a curator with the C/O Berlin Foundation, she managed to build an extensive international network of institutions, artists and experts. She has also developed and introduced several programme formats which explore the profound changes within photography since the onset of digitalisation and discuss questions about the future of the medium.

Federica Zanetti

Federica Zanetti

Federica Zanetti is artistic assistant at BA Camera Arts. She graduated in BA Graphic Design at HSLU Lucerne / Design, Film and Art in 2021 and has since completed several internships in Zurich, including at Studio NOI and Marie Cuennet, in addition to her freelance work.

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She now works as a duo with Annina Linggi on various graphic works. In their work they pursue context-oriented, experimental and flexible solutions. Pop culture and socio-political themes have a great visual and thematic influence on their work. This often leads to an intensive examination of typography and image and the exploration of visual habits of seeing. Their preferred disciplines are editorial design and the development of corporate identities.

Laia Abril

Laia

Laia Abril is a multidisciplinary artist working with photography, text, video, and sound in research-based projects. She is the author of Thinspiration (2012), The Epilogue (Dewi Lewis, 2014), Tediousphilia (Musée de l'Elysée, 2014), Lobismuller (RM, 2016) and On Abortion (Dewi Lewis, 2018) and collaborated as a creative editor in many publications as well as the staff of COLORS Magazine for 5 years.

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Her work has been exhibited worldwide and is held in private collections and museums, such as the Centre Pompidou, Musée de l’Elysée, Fotomuseum Winterthur, FRAC, MNAC, and FotoColectania.

Salvatore Vitale

Salvatore

Salvatore Vitale (b. 1986, Palermo, Italy) is a Swiss-based artist, editor and educator. In his multi-layered artistic practice and research, Vitale’s work focuses on the development and complexity of modern societies exploring power structures, political cosmologies and technological mediation, whilst using expanded documentary analysis, including elements of fiction, speculative storytelling and the use of multiple visual forms.

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In his artistic practice, Vitale presents and discusses relevant changes in and within photography and the intersection with other disciplines. His work has been awarded and exhibited internationally.  

Taiyo Onorato

Taiyo Onorato

Taiyo Onorato is part of the former artist duo Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs, who have been working as an artist duo since their studies at the photography class of the ZHdK in 2003. Their diverse projects and exhibitions focus on the medium of photography, but their practice also includes sculptural works, installations, films and book publications.

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Their work has been exhibited internationally in museums and galleries, including solo exhibitions at MoMa PS1 New York (2006), Fotomuseum Winterthur (2015), CAC Cincinnati (2014), LeBal Paris (2013), FOAM Amsterdam (2012/2014), and KINDL Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2018).


They are represented in numerous collections and have been awarded important prizes, including the Foam Paul Huf Award (2013), Swiss Design Award (2011), Werkstipendium des Kantons Zürich (2018) and Deutsche Börse Photography Prize (shortlist, 2017). They have also published numerous artist's books, including the "Most Beautiful Swiss Book" award-winning publications "The Great Unreal" (2009) and "Continental Drift"(2017) as well as the latest title "FUTURE MEMORIES", all published by Edition Patrick Frey, Zurich.

Nicolas Polli

Nicolas

Swiss photographer, graphic designer and publisher Nicolas Polli (1989) studied Art Direction at the Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne (ECAL). In 2012 he co-founded the photographic magazine YET with Salvatore Vitale. In 2016 he began developing an independent studio, Atelier CIAO, specialising in editorial design and still life photography with a focus on design and luxury.

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In 2018 and 2020, he received a Swiss Design Award. After experiences with several publishers, he founded his own publishing house CIAO PRESS. He teaches photography and photobook design in various universities. Since 2021 he has been an artist in residence at Atelier Robert in Biel.

Brian Paul Lamotte

Brian

Brian Paul Lamotte (b. 1984, San Francisco, USA) is an independent graphic designer & publisher specializing in art and photography books. Educated in graphic design at London’s Central St. Martins, he established his creative practice in New York and is currently based in Milano.

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His process-based practice relies on a close collaboration with artists, editors and printers, and often emphasizes the haptic qualities of print through the use of materials, hand-done treatments and specialized production. His design approach utilizes extensive visual and production research paired with image-led solutions and minimal typography.

Thomas Knüsel

Thomas

Zurich based artist Thomas Knüsel studied Fine Arts (MA) at Zurich University of the Arts and the Lucerne University of Art and Design (HSLU D&K, BA). His artistic practice focuses on media art, 3D animation and installations. Thomas works with model-like imagery and scientific aesthetics, questioning the relation between scientific certainty and subjective perception in visual representation, objects and systems.

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With his installations, he is examining and probing prototyped model realities, contexts which are supposed to support our thinking and delineate fields where our mind may flow. He is interested in the field of visual thinking, searching for parallels and differences on the production and use of images in art and science.

Dr. Caroline von Courten

Dr. Caroline von Courten is Co-Director of Der Greif - an organization for contemporary photography with an award-winning magazine - and teaches photography theory & history and visual culture at Camera Arts. She holds a PhD in photo theory (The Photographic Surface - between Substances and Spaces, Leiden University, The Netherlands, 2023) - a photo-theoretical study on photographic materiality in the digital age.

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Prior to her academic career, she held positions as executive editor of Foam International Photography Magazine (2018 & 2010-2012), (assistant) curator photography at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2008-9) and Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam (2009-10).

Dr. Wolfgang Brückle

Wolfgang Brückle

Dr. Wolfgang Brückle studied art history and literature in Marburg, Dijon and Hamburg. Among other things, he has worked for the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and as a research assistant at the Universities of Stuttgart and Bern, as a senior research fellow at Essex and as a visiting professor at Zurich and Bern. He also curated exhibitions, conducted research into medieval art, art theory, the history of museums, contemporary art, and media history with a focus on photography. He has been a theory lecturer at the Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art since 2013.